Umbrella.



No. 735,033. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903. W. W. CLIMENSON.

UMBRELLA.

APPLICATION fILED NOV. 7. 1902.

N0 MODEL fizmjeys UNTTED STATES Patented. July 28, 1903.

XVILLIAM \V. CLIMENSON, OF HONEYBROOK, PENNSYLVANIA.

UMBRELLA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,033, dated July 28, 1903.

Application filed November 7, 1902. Serial No. 130,444. (No model.)

T0 (tZZ whom it ntay concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. OLIMEN- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Ioneybrook, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Umbrella, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to certain improvement-s in that general class of umbrellas in which provision is made for readily attaching and detaching the cover, the latter being made and sold as a separate article of manufacture and applied by the user to the sup porting-frame.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of umbrella rib and tip wherein the tip members are permanently secured in proper position to the umbrella-cover and are adapted to fit within suitable holding-sockets arranged at the ends of the ribs.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be readily employed in connection with the socalled paragon frame at but trifling expense and in which the appearance of the umbrella-cover and its tip connections will not differ from that of the ordinary umbrella.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size, and minor details of the structure may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a portion of an umbrella, drawn to an exaggerated scale and illustrating the construct-ion and arrangement of a rib, tip, and cover in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the tip and a portion of the rib detached. Fig; 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, the members being shown in inverted position. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevation through the rib and socket on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a plan view, on

an exaggerated scale, of the blank from' which the tip-receiving socket is formed. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing the socket member attached to the tip.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The rib member 5, as illustrated in the drawings, is of the channeled form in ordinary use, but somewhat shorter than usual, the tip member 6 being formed of a separate piece, or the ordinary rib as found on the market maybe severed in order to form the separate tip member.

The tip 6 is secured by stitching or otherwise to a cover 7, the cover with the attached tip being made and sold as a separate article of manufacture.

At the outer end of the rib proper is secured a tip-receiving socket formed of a metallic plate 8, having a generally rectangular contour and provided at its opposite sides with a plurality of V-shaped notches 9, forming tongues 10, which are bent over and em brace the opposite edges of the channel-rib. The plate is bent around the end portion of the rib in such mannerthat the tongues are firmly clamped to the rib, while the remaining portion of the plate forms a socket adapted for the reception of the tip member 6. It will be observed that the socket-forming plate is so bent and disposed as to firmly embrace and surround the entire rib at the extreme outer end, and thus forma brace for the projecting portions of the plate, the structure being to all intents and purposes as strong and rigid as an integral rib'and tip.

It is intended that the stick and rib structure shall be sold as one article and the cover with its attached ribs as another article, so that the purchaser may readily replace a torn or faded cover or may keep on handa variety of covers, which may be interchanged as occasion may require.

In applying the tips and cover the tips are inserted in the socket members until their inner ends bear directly against the similarlyshaped outer ends of the ribs,-the tensioual strain of the cover being thus resisted by a direct thrust-bearing on the end of the rib. The tension of the cover is in all cases suffiing devices.

The socket member may be secured to the tip instead of to the end of the rib, as illustrated in Fig. 6; but the construction shown in Fig. 1 is preferable, inasmuch as the length of the plate is practically unlimited and a more extensive clampingsurface may be formed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. An umbrella comprising a supportingstick, ribs shorter in length than the corresponding portions of the cover to which they are to be attached, socket members secured to the ribs and projecting beyond the ends thereof, and a plurality of removable tips secured to the cover and adapted to be held in thesockets bythe tensional strain exerted by the cover.

2. In an umbrella, rib members shorter in length than the corresponding portions of the cover to which they are to be attached, socket members having tongues clamped into engagement with the ribs, said socket members projecting beyond the ends of the ribs, and tip members secured to the outer edge of the umbrella-cover and adapted to abut against the ends of the ribs and be held in position by said socket members. 7

3. The combination with abutting rib and tip members of similar contour, of a socket member formed of a metallic plate clamped to the end of the rib and projecting beyond the end thereof to receive the tip, the tip member being held in place in the socket by the tensional strain of the cover between the top and the point of attachment of the cover and notch.

4. The combination with abutting rib and tip members, of a plate bent to engage one of said members and projecting beyond the end thereof to form a receiving-socket for the other member, the tip members being held in place by the tensional strain of the cover between the tips and the point of attachment of the cover and notch.

5. In a device of the class specified, a channeled rib, a plate having tongues bent to clamp the channeled rib, one end of the plate being bent to form a socket and projecting beyond the end of the rib, and atip member adapted to said socket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my'own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM W. oLIMENsoN.

Witnesses:

S. J. HUGHES, W. H. AYARS. 

